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David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest Turns 25 | Children’s Literature and Political Correctness

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Pubblicato: 16 Marzo 2022

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Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace’s most famous book, published on February 1, 1996, turned 25 in 2021. In its first section, this special issue celebrates the novel’s silver anniversary with six fresh re-readings by prominent Wallace readers. The second section deals with the theme ‘transgression vs the politically correct’ in children’s literature. 

permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/EL/2420-823X/2021/08

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Section 1. David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest Turns 25
Hidden Gems
Unexpectedly Poetic Lines Easily Overlooked (?) in Infinite Jest’s Voluminous Flow
Mary Shapiro   
16 Marzo 2022
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“I Am in Here”: A Comparative Reading of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest and Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis
Allard den Dulk   
16 Marzo 2022
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Infinite Jest’s Voice(s)
Notes for an (Audible) Map
Pia Masiero    Adriano Ardovino   
16 Marzo 2022
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Memories of the Limbaugh Administration
1990s Politics, Conservative Media, and Infinite Jest as a Novel of Radio
Jeffrey Severs   
16 Marzo 2022
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The Triumph of the Will of Athletes in Infinite Jest
Jamie Redgate   
16 Marzo 2022
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Wallace After Postmodernism (Again): Metamodernism, Tone, Tennis
Timotheus Vermeulen   
16 Marzo 2022
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Section 2. Children’s Literature and Political Correctness
Transgression vs the Politically Correct: Phases and Faces of a Core Category in Children’s Literature
Francesca Orestano   
16 Marzo 2022
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Forbidden Words: Language Control and Victorian Political Correctness in Dickens and Carroll
Galia Benziman   
16 Marzo 2022
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The Blue Fairy and Wendy
Incest, Sacrifice or Feminine Empowerment?
Déborah Lévy-Bertherat   
16 Marzo 2022
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The Politically Incorrect and Its Limits in Late Twentieth-Century Youth Literature
Rome, l’Enfer by Malika Ferdjoukh
Sylvie Servoise   
16 Marzo 2022
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Children’s Sexualisation and Toys
Barbie Doll as a Sexual Token in Sarah Strohmeyer’s Barbie Unbound
Beatrice Moja   
16 Marzo 2022
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John Boyne’s Representation of the Shoah in The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas: A Paradigm of Transgression and Linguistic Uncertainties
Marco Canani   
16 Marzo 2022
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